Two Nine-Year-Olds’ Magnificent Open Letter to Disney About Racial and Gender Stereotypes

Brain Pickings ^ | August 9, 2015 | Maria Popova

[Defiant]

Can mental illness be taught?

If children grow up in an insane milieu, to be normal would seem insane to them.

[Defiant]

I have more confidence than you in the ability of leftist to propagandize children and for children to regurgitate it back in well written letters. In past ages, these children would have written very nice imaginative essays about their wonderful visit to Disney. Their teachers have taught them to notice dark skin and gender stereotypes. They are only doing what they were taught. It may or may not have been written by these kids, but smart kids at a school like this could easily have written this letter, so I don’t find any need to dispute this claimed fact for purposes of discussing what the school is doing to these poor children.

[FredZarguna]

I’m not sure I agree. If there is anything to the concept of human nature, and I believe there is, at some point children will stop aping the superficial prejudices of the adults who control them. Then we’ll see...

[left that other site]

I am white, but, in spite of my dad working two jobs, none of us six kids could got to go to private schools or Disneyland.

[Hulka]

Last week in June or first week in July. . .I think.
Usually that “gay week’ starts after the homosexuals finish their ‘gay cruise’ on the Disney boat and head over to the park. Imagine booking on the Disney boat only to find you and your young children are trapped on a homosexual “love boat’ for a week. Must keep close eye on the kids all the time. . homosexual predators, you know.

For homosexual week in the park Disney brings in more lights and illuminates all the dark places in the park. .still doesn't stop them.

Odd thing is, most of the staff, actors and such, are homosexual, flamboyant.

[Hulka]

Well. . .we did have Carter listening to 10-yr old Amy about nuclear policy. . .

[bgill]

No way, no how was that letter written by 9 yo kids.

[Company Man]

Because as we all know, dark-skinned people in Africa never threw spears at explorers.

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[FreedomPoster]

I’m sure then they are organizationally/philosophically related to Trinity Church, the Episcopal church near Zuccotti Park that was so helpful to the Occupy Wall Street movement.

[JimRed]

For instance, in the jungle cruise, all the robotic people have dark skin and are throwing spears at you. We think this reinforces some negative associations, we think you should replace them with monkeys throwing rotten fruit.

Imagine if a white kid or any white person had said the same exact words. The howls Of RAAACISST-calling-negroes-monkeys would fill the airways and papers for days!

[Vermont Lt]

Such crap.

[Swede Girl]

It's a plant. Fake. Part of the overall war on normalcy. This was not written by 9 year olds. If it was, it was coached. It is just a part of the master plan to indoctrinate and change society one drop at a time.

It is not going to work in the long run. A minuscule number of boys will choose to be made up like princesses. Not going to happen for the 99.9999999...% of boys who go to Disney.

[terycarl]

I will volunteer to beat the hell out of their teacher....what tripe....imagine, a jungle trip where dark skinned people threw spears....whooda thunk it???

The Amish were probably busy growing something that day.....sheesh.

[SaraJohnson]

Political correctness makes one stupid.

[1010RD]

That usage, grammar and punctuation are amazing. Where do I enroll my 3rd graders?